Workbench

01/14/2009

Honest, Officer, We'd Been Planning To Disappear Without a Trace For a Long Time

A Pennsylvania contractor and his wife have been arrested after their bank made a mistake on a routine deposit.

A $1,772.50 deposit showed up in their FNB Bank account last summer as $177,250. Police say Melissa Pratt said her husband, a roofing installer, often got large checks and she wasn't aware of any error.

That would be a more convincing defense had the couple not withdrawn the money, closed the bank account, and moved to Orlando leaving no forwarding address.